Complex transcriptional regulation of myc family gene expression in the developing mouse brain and liver.
AUTOR(ES)
Xu, L
RESUMO
myc family genes (c-, N-, and L-myc) have been shown to be differentially expressed with respect to tissue type and developmental stage. To define and compare the regulatory mechanisms governing their differential developmental expression, we examined the transcriptional regulation of each myc family member during murine postnatal brain and liver development. Nuclear run-on transcription assays demonstrated that both the rate of transcriptional initiation and the degree of transcriptional blocking contribute in a complex manner to the regulation of all three genes. During postnatal brain development, the relative contribution of each transcriptional control mechanism to the regulation of myc family gene expression was found to be different for each gene. For instance, while modulation of transcriptional attenuation did not appear to contribute to the down-regulation of L-myc expression, attenuation was found to be the dominant mechanism by which steady-state N-myc mRNA levels were down-regulated. Different transcriptional strategies were found to be employed in newborn versus adult developing liver for repression of N- and L-myc expression. Undetectable steady-state N- and L-myc mRNA levels in newborn liver were associated with a very low rate of transcriptional initiation, whereas the lack of N- and L-myc expression at the adult stage was accompanied by a high rate of initiation and a striking degree of transcriptional attenuation. Transcriptional attenuation in the N-myc gene was found to map to a region encoding a potential stem-loop structure followed by a thymine tract within the first exon and was not dependent on the use of a specific transcriptional start site.
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